iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat

By

Walter S. Mossberg

Dec. 4, 2012 9:00 p.m. ET

Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions. Now, Apple has given iTunes its biggest overhaul since 2003, when the software—originally just a jukebox for Macs—was made available for Windows computers and the built-in iTunes store was added.

I've been testing this major new version, called iTunes 11, and I consider it a significant improvement in the...